black-and-tan coonhound

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   American breed of large powerful hound dogs used for hunting raccoons and other game

   Broadercoonhound

Questions about black-and-tan coonhound

What does black-and-tan coonhound mean?

black-and-tan coonhound means "American breed of large powerful hound dogs used for hunting raccoons and other game".

Is black-and-tan coonhound a common word?

black-and-tan coonhound is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.